Network admin allowed me to read-access only 1 file from a subfolder of a shared folder on a server and I don't have permissions to even view upper level folders, but when I open that folder I can see all files in it.

I open command window under my user name on my PC and then try to copy that file on my PC:

when I use copy - it works

when I try xcopy - it says "File not found".

when I try robocopy - it says "Access is denied".

How come "copy" is the best tool from those 3 in my situation ?
What can I do to make other tools to work in this case ?

This did not help, if I replace xcopy from your example with copy and remove /C /S /D /Y - it works. xcopy still gives same error "File not found". Putting backslash at the end or wrapping source and destination in quotes did not make any difference.
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alpavOct 4 '12 at 20:24